Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 2 | ‘ At the end of High School I got together with a drummer , who is still one of my best friends , and over the summer of ‘ 67 we got into a group situation . |
| 3 | I got together with a school friend when I was 12 — I 'd just started playing guitar — and we played Beatles and Stones numbers , but then he got hold of a Muddy Waters album and that just blew us away ! |
| 4 | It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away . |
| 5 | Seating ourselves on the trunk of an old ash-tree that stretched along the ground , Coleridge read aloud with a sonorous and musical voice , the ballad of Betty Foy . |
| 6 | Once again , the desirability of clear terms of contract , coupled perhaps with an unambiguous job description , is plain . |
| 7 | A human pulled them out without thinking , twiddled inside with a screwdriver , and put up a new box with a lock on it . |
| 8 | The man jerked backwards with a cry . |
| 9 | As he did so , she moved away with a look of distaste on her face . |
| 10 | She broke off as if afraid of being overheard and moved away with a nod and a wave . |
| 11 | The Camperdown was cut in half — sank quickly with a resulting loss of the lives of over one thousand men including the stubborn Admiral . |
| 12 | From the library they staggered forth with a querulous shout of " Yah , Boney ! " |
| 13 | I jerked upright with a hoarse cry . |
| 14 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 15 | It was flanked on one side by a great domed hall , supported on a quadrant of megalithic arches , each one at least twelve feet thick ; to its side the palace wall rose upwards with a colossal , almost Romanesque massiveness . |
| 16 | The design aim at the beginning of this project was to have a power supply adjustable over a range of about 5V to 15V which regulated well with a maximum current output of about 5A . |
| 17 | Place all the ingredients in a large bowl and beat well with a wooden spoon for 1–2 minutes until the mixture is smooth . |
| 18 | The wide river narrowed abruptly with a notice on our left saying DANGER in huge letters , and a smaller notice saying LOCK with an arrow to the right . |
| 19 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |
| 20 | Unhappy with this design as well , which he felt looked ungainly and awkward , Cusick tried again with a wider based shape , this time moving the studded circles down from the midriff to the skirt section . |
| 21 | But caught red-handed with a bomb in the glove compartment of the car she was driving , the mother-of-seven was on a mission to kill . |
| 22 | He joked briefly with a woman in a lilac cardigan at a desk . |
| 23 | He jerked forward with a start to find the hostess fingering with his seat-belt clasp . |
| 24 | She sat down beside him , instinctively putting her arm out to support him , but he jerked forward with a sharp gasp , and she saw the brown lines of dried blood across the back of his shirt . |
| 25 | The perpetrator , the young Rugby lock , Smith , got away with a stern lecture from referee Steve Lander , who had been alerted to the incident by his touch judge . |
| 26 | SOCCER player Paul Pullen got away with a foul … his identical twin was sent off instead . |
| 27 | BLUEBIRD : The thief got away with a nest-egg |
| 28 | Fellow countryman Luis Mendoza got away with a draw — but in the return Palacio was halted in the third round . |
| 29 | In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored . |
| 30 | A BRITISH villain who got away with a £292 million haul in the world 's biggest mugging was murdered by a Mafia hitman . |